The plenary session of the Parliament of Navarre This Thursday, he rejected a movement presented by Geroa Bai who urged Spanish government to allow the bilingual edition in Spanish and Basque official documents such as IDENTIFIER or the driving license in the Foral Community.
They supported the proposal EH Bildu, Geroa Bai And With you-Zurekininsufficient support for the vote against UPN, PPN And Voiceand abstention from PSN.
UPN presented a modifying amendment proposing to urge the central government to authorize the bilingual edition, Spanish-Basque, of official documents for citizens who request it in areas where the Basque East official language of Navarre. For his part, the PPN presented an amendment in similar terms, to propose that bilingual edition be permitted in the Basque-speaking region of Navarre. Geroa Bai did not accept the amendments.
The motion included another section urging the central government to “fulfill the general law of audiovisual communication and ensure that the digital platforms for audiovisual products respect the percentage established there production in co-official languages“. This item was approved, with the support of EH Bildu, Geroa Bai And With you-Zurekinabstention from UPN, PSN And PPN and the vote against Voice.
The parliamentarian of Geroa Bai Mikel Asian indicated that with this motion “we are only asking for simple respect for a law and the freedom to choose language in an official document“. “Conformity and freedom,” he insisted. Asiain asked “why the texts cannot be – in the IDENTIFIER or driving license- in Basque for anyone who decides to do so, freely, voluntarily, taking into account the fact that Basque is one of the Community languages“. So, he asked if “it generates a problem” that this possibility exists.
The parliamentarian of UPN Marta Alvarez declared that “we have no objection, quite the contrary, to the fact that IDENTIFIERthe driving license and the rest of the official documents can be issued in bilingual for citizens who wish and reside in the municipalities or municipalities in which the Basque be co-official, but only in those, because the Basque It’s only partly official Navarre and this must be respected when we talk about issuance of official documents.” “Protect and promote the Basque This can be done while respecting our sociolinguistic reality and our volunteerism,” he assured.
The parliamentarian of PSN Inma Jurio indicated that his group might “be willing to move forward” regarding bilingual edition“because the PSN has always spoken in favor of promotion of Basque as a mother tonguealways with criteria of obstinacy“He stressed, however, that the motion does not expressly specify that this bilingual edition is “voluntary”.
By EH Bildu, Eneka Maïz stated that in UPN And PPN are “extremely intolerant and very sectarian” and indicated that the IDENTIFIER This is a “personal and non-transferable document”. “What difference does it make to them that the document is bilingual, if this person, wherever they come from, wants it? It is a total interference in the linguistic rights and unprecedented individuals. What is personal and non-transferable is your phobia. A few regionalistsno matter how much it hurts them, they are not that regionalist,” he stressed.
The parliamentarian of PPN Irene Royo indicated that the Basque “It is not the official language throughout the territory and no matter how much they try to ignore this reality, we keep remembering it here.” Thus, he explained that according to his approach according to which official documents can be issued in Basque in the Basque region “We seek not only to adapt to legal reality of Navarra but also to his sociolinguistic diversityrespecting what is established by the regulations in force, which is the Basque law“.
The spokesperson for With you-Zurekin, Carlos Guzmandeclared that “if all the forces of this Parliament make an effort and put aside our maximum policiesto a large extent we could find a common space that could be the European Charter for Minority Languages or regional.” “The proposed resolution of Geroa Bai They are completely reasonable,” he said.
Finally, the spokesperson for Voice, Maïté Nostistressed that the initiative of Geroa Bai for the bilingual edition of official documents is “an attempt to go further to include Navarre in this entelechy called Euskal Herría“, which is why he justified his vote against.
